The government promotes the innovative production, opening and sharing of all data held by our society. Expand the opening of public data to the legislative area.
On the 26th, the government held the 2nd National Data Policy Committee chaired by Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, and overcome the limitations of the past, such as under the government’s leadership, ‘Proactive data sharing and opening up through public-private cooperation, bold innovation institutional, and pre-emptive investment plans The 1st ‘Data Industry Promotion Basic Plan’ was published.
The National Data Policy Committee consists of less than 30 people with the Prime Minister as chairman, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the joint secretary of the Minister of Public Administration and Security, and is a committee that discusses the general national comprehensive and negotiated. data policy.
At the meeting, the ‘1st Data Industry Promotion Basic Plan’, a follow-up plan in the data and AI sector from the national digital vision ‘Korea Digital Strategy’ announced on September 28 last year, was discussed and discussed. The basic scheme for the promotion of the data industry is a statutory scheme established by the government every three years to promote the production, discussion and use of data and to create a foundation for the data industry in accordance with Article 4 of the Framework Act on Promotion and Use . the Data Industry’.
◇ Strategically establish data for learning AI through the basic plan
Data is the driving force in the digital age that determines the technological development of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerates innovation in the economy and society as a whole. Korea has been striving to form a rapid start-up market led by the government, such as opening public data, building data through financial input, and supporting vouchers.
Quality data is still scarce and private sector participation in the market is slow. Systems that promote the use of data, such as My Data, are inconvenient to use, and the base for data use by professionals, leading technologies, and companies needs to be further expanded.
With this basic plan, the government plans to strategically build AI learning data considering the industrial demand and competitiveness of AI technology. It intends to strategically generate and provide the necessary data for the creation of new industries by laying the foundation for research data sharing and global data collection and sharing.
◇ Create a national data infrastructure based on public-private cooperation
The government is expanding the scope of open data from the administration to the legislative area. Increase ease of opening by strengthening user participation. Based on public-private collaboration, a system to collect data on future issues such as aging and discuss response scenarios will be prepared to expand the meaning and impact of opening data.
Create a national data infrastructure that finds and conveniently uses data to prepare a private sector-led data distribution and transaction ecosystem. Establish a ‘One Window’ where anyone can easily search private and public data and access value appraisal and quality certification information together, and prepare a ‘National Standardization Map’.
The government expects the size of the data market to reach 50 trillion won by 2027. It plans to cultivate private experts and companies that will lead the growth of the data market. By 2025, the number of data trading and analysis companies will be expanded to 3,500 and 1,000 data trading companies will be trained.
◇ Strengthen the fundamentals of the data industry
Create a foundation for using data that is secure and promotes innovation. Through the implementation of the joint public-private legislative reform group, regulations that hinder the use of data will be overhauled, and innovative use of data will be promoted by expanding the standardization of My Data transfer methods and the dissemination of leading services .
Establish principles of fair access to data held by giant platforms. The development of trust-based AI technology and the provision of ethics training will also be promoted to ensure an environment where free and fair access to and use of data is possible.
Full-scale national digital transformation by strengthening the fundamentals of the data industry.
The number of flagship schools for AI and elementary, middle and high school data education will increase from 1095 last year to 1820 by 2026. Data science graduate schools will also be expanded from 5 to 10 by 2025. Establish 5 new MBA locations to cultivate industrial convergence data talents. This year, a budget of 20 billion will be invested in core and application technologies such as data fabric.
Reorganize the government’s uniform voucher support method, such as the data voucher support project.
The data voucher support project is a project where the government supports the costs of purchasing and processing data free of charge for small and medium enterprise companies and small business owners who have difficulties using data. The government plans to introduce a ‘Data Problem Solving Bank’ to support corporate digital transformation in a form of tailored sustainable growth.
Kim Hye-joo, CEO of Lotte Members, a private member of the National Data Policy Committee, said, “The items offered and discussed must be promoted without restriction, and innovative services based on on AI data continue to emerge.” “Everyone can enjoy digital benefits conveniently and fairly. Hopefully there will be a society that enjoys it.”
Reporter Hyemi Kwon hyeming@etnews.com
